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Grazed from Reuters. Author: Editorial Staff.

This spring, Taser International Inc won a small but high-profile contract to supply body cameras to the London police. But the deal nearly collapsed over one issue: where the video footage would be stored. In the end, the deal survived only after Taser dropped Amazon.com Inc as the data storage provider for the year-long project. The fact that Amazon did not have a data center in Britain was a deal breaker for British officials, according to Taser.

The case is an example of the challenges that Amazon faces as it works to expand its cloud computing business, known as Amazon Web Services (AWS). In cloud computing, clients store and process data on remote servers accessed by the Internet, as opposed to storing information in local servers…

Grazed from CRN. Author: Kevin McLaughlin.

Oracle CTO (and former CEO) Larry Ellison once famously trashed the term "cloud computing" as redundant and vague, but now he sounds like he’s had a big change of heart. On Oracle’s fiscal second quarter earnings call Wednesday, Ellison said his company booked $170 million in new SaaS and PaaS subscriptions during the quarter, and expects that figure to jump to $250 million by the end of its fiscal year next May.

In Oracle’s 2016 fiscal year, which starts next June, the Redwood Shores, Calif.-based vendor is on track to sell "well in excess" of $1 billion in new, annual cloud subscriptions, according to Ellison. "As our cloud business gets bigger, our growth rate is going up," Ellison said on the call…

Grazed from eWeek. Author: Chris Preimsberger.

Debates over trusting an expert as opposed to someone who claims to be an expert happen every day across all industries—from car repair to IT—and this certainly includes anything involving the cloud. While cloud computing enables significant benefits for users to access applications from any computer, it has also created a new group of "cloud posers."

These posers are defined as inexperienced software developers who make bold (and often untrue) claims about the performance of the cloud-based applications they manage. Most of these posers work as independent consultants. On the surface, a poser may talk a good game and seem like a good choice to support an enterprise, but asking a few smart questions might just reveal his or her lack of expertise—and save you lots of grief…

Grazed from ProgrammableWeb.  Author: Michael Vizard.

Microsoft has moved to make database services running on the Microsoft Azure cloud more accessible by enhancing the level of support it provides Java and PHP developers, while also making available a data management gateway based on an implementation of OData that they created using RESTful APIs.

In addition to providing support for Node.js, Python, .NET and JavaScript for the Azure DocumentDB, Microsoft is rolling out a new Java SDK. The company has also updated its Microsoft SQL Server Driver for PHP and Microsoft JDBC Driver for SQL Server to make it easier to write applications that span SQL Server databases running on premises and the Azure SQL Database running in the cloud…

Grazed from WSJ.  Author: Josh Bekerman.

Red Hat Inc. said Thursday its results for the November quarter improved thanks to cloud computing and big data trends that have increased demand for its open-source technology.  Red Hat shares rose 9% to $67 in recent after-hours trading.

The open-source software provider, which has reported robust revenue increases lately, is known for its enterprise Linux OpenStack platform, but has also posted solid growth for its so-called middleware offerings and has expanded its storage technology business…

Grazed from MidsizeInsider.  Author: Jason Hannula.

For the majority of developers working in DevOps and continuous delivery, the cloud is proving to be a natural fit. Cloud service providers that create compatible technology ecosystems will capitalize on DevOps embracing cloud computing.

Cloud Services Deliver DevOps

Evans Data recently polled programmers and found that DevOps teams and businesses that utilize continuous code delivery models are being drawn to cloud computing, a recent InformationWeek article reports. Seventy-seven percent of respondents reported working primarily or entirely in the cloud. The reliance on incremental development, automated testing and rapid production integration found in these code development strategies works well in cloud environments, given their flexibility to spin up resources as needed…

Grazed from TMC.  Author: PR Announcement.

A growing number of high-profile regional organisations will present their strategies and highlight the potential benefits of business analytics at Dubai’s forthcoming GCC BIG DATA & ANALYTICS SUMMIT in March 2015.

 This top-management GCC forum has been designed for CEO and COO level participants – just as much as for CTOs and CIOs. It will take place at Dubai’s Address Marina Hotel from March  8-10 next year, with the support of leading GCC corporates and official organisations…

Grazed from PRNewsWire.  Author: PR Announcement.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that it radically simplified and made it easier for customers to enter into cloud computing services agreements by creating a standard, two-page agreement to replace longer, more complex contracts that typically required long negotiations and reviews before a deal was signed. In comparison, IBM’s cloud competitors require customers to review and commit to more complex contracts that commonly are at least five times longer and also incorporate terms and conditions from other websites.

In recognition of this achievement, IBM received the 2014 Innovation Award for Operational Improvement from the International Association for Contract and Commercial Management (IACCM) for boldly and rapidly transforming its cloud computing contract process – an achievement that significantly improved the company’s ability to quickly serve cloud computing clients around the world…

Grazed from TalkinCloud.  Author: Michael Vizard.

The use of OpenPOWER systems in cloud computing environments got a major boost today via an announcement from Rackspace is joining the OpenPOWER Foundation.  Aaron Sullivan, senior director and distinguished engineer, infrastructure strategy at Rackspace, said that after an extensive period of evaluation, Rackspace has determined that servers based on the Power processors originally developed by IBM will be deployed alongside x86 servers in its data centers.

Because of the ability to run more application workloads and virtual machines more efficiently by accessing more processing cores, Sullivan says that Rackspace will be deploying Power servers in support of variety of distributions of Linux…

Grazed from PRWeb.  Author: PR Announcement.

AURO Enterprise Cloud announced today the official launch of their Powered by AURO Cloud initiative that empowers their clients to use and benefit from flexible Cloud Computing Services, including the company’spublic cloud computing and cloud services framework, to expand their cloud practices and generate new revenue opportunities.  With this launch, AURO has introduced three partner programs that provide partners with faster time to value and simplified cloud support for their business.

In line with AURO’s Canadian Cloud Computingstrategy to bring cloud computing across Canada, these new options to the Powered by AURO Partner programs enable value-added resellers (VARs) and global system integrators (GSIs) to offer their customers a delivery model that crosses private, managed and public cloud computing environments in Canada…